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I had the same memory, maybe it’s just because the first Saw didn’t get such a huge hype cycle so we didn’t notice it as much ?

You’re actually right saw released 1 year earlier I must have missed it at the time

Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn’t fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(

Weird comment as this iteration has spawned the fastest growing products of all time. There’s no comparison possible with bubbles such as NFTs or the Metaverse.

Financially it’s a bubble because those products are grossly unprofitable even by VC standards, but the consumer appeal definitely is there.

That’s contrary to my experience, but we may be working on different use cases. Do you have some specific issues in mind?

In my experience if you find yourself engineering prompts specifically for one SOTA model, you’re on the wrong track. The resulting product gets brittle and non deterministic and very difficult to maintain.

There’s absolutely a push for specialized hardware, look up that company called Groq !

What’s weird about the mental gymnastics is that a respiratory virus pandemic is the risk factor of the century. It was a probability of 100% that this would end up happening, the only question was when and where.

But people will take the numerous calls to caution that were issued in the decades prior, and use them as proofs that something shady went on. What can you do …

I agree that it is ridiculous to claim that it is impossible and outright dismiss the idea. Nobody can say it doesn’t come from there and proving a negative is impossible. However there are a number of reasons which make the Wuhan thing a lot less suspicious than it seems at first glance.

Wuhan is the 7th largest Chinese city, and is among the most prolific research cities in China, so of course you’d have a lot of virology labs there and that would be the most probable location for coronavirus-related research. Remember that coronaviruses were kind of a hot topic in Asia after the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s.

Respiratory viruses, obviously, thrive in high-density population centers, so it would stand to reason that a 13 million inhabitants agglomeration would be at the center of this kind of thing.

To put this into perspective : if COVID had appeared in France, near some podunk town of 30K inhabitants that just happens to have a coronavirus-related lab - OK that would be super suspicious. But most likely it would have originated near Paris which is the largest population center in the whole region. Well that’s also where the Pasteur Institute is, and the Pasteur Institute being the largest virology research center in the country is the most likely place where you’d find coronavirus research. All of a sudden that would be a lot less shady.

Same here, I’ve been using it for years both on mobile and desktop, and I can’t remember the last time I’ve had to open chrome for a specific website

I think the trap is that you should look for accounts that seem extra normal. Those are your typical bot accounts. Impeccable spelling, and more elaborate structure than you’d typically find in a social media comment, but very “locally plausible” content.

In my experience accounts that seem weird are run by weird humans.

Yeah same. It was our first theater experience together and we had a blast. The movie is aggressively mediocre although it does have a few moments.

If there had been a technological civilization before ours we would notice the depletion of natural resources, especially metal ore and fossil fuels.

The sad truth is we only have this one shot. If we collapse, there is no way another civilization reaches our technological level. All the easy to access fuel and resources have been pumped and used, so they wouldn’t have the energy and materials required to start industrializing. They’d be stuck on a depleted planet with no realistic way to escape it.

I use it to role play historical counter factuals, like how I could win the battle of Cannae through tactics, or how I could invent the telegraph in 13th century France. It’s worth every watt <3

Don’t have to imagine it when you can just remember it. Getting online in the late 90s was a horror show, seriously dialup was super unreliable. And that was 20 years after it’s inception, it was shit but also extremely popular.

Not sure what you mean by Memphis?

What’s weird is that the joke already exists, in the original meme format. Why not use that? AI slop has a distinctively corporate and unfunny feel to it which lots of people dislike.

Yeah i see your point honestly, and at some point there’s no debating either it does it for you or it doesn’t. I’m thinking maybe it’s not a game for you cause that’s a gameplay loop that’s generally enjoyed by players.

the zombification exploit is an exploit (unless they fixed it? idk I haven’t played since before the update with the warden), setting up a farm with the desired villagers is an absolute chore

Not sure what you mean ? Villager curing is a legit mechanic, and it’s not absolutely required. Personally i never bother, as emeralds are so easy to farm they’re basically infinite. I see what you mean about building villager “trading halls”, though, i used to hate it too. But it’s not really required either i guess. You can just pop into a village, convert 3 or 4 villagers to librarians with the trades you want : mending, unbreaking, efficiency & protection will get you most of the way even if it’s not maxed-out gear you’ll already see the difference. For more marginal enchants you can explore the End and combine equipment you looted from there.

It’s what i like in that mechanic, there’s various paths to acquire good equipment, a minimal setup will take minimal effort but if you geek out you can make yourself a god-tier kit that will stay with you forever.

Anecdotally I used to roll with a crew that had a bunch of PvPers who’d lose equipment all the time, so we had this huge kit-farming district in our base that was really fun to design and build. The system is pretty in-depth and i wouldn’t call it badly designed (even though it might not be to everybody’s taste).

I think what makes the game great is that it contains a number of game mechanics, which are all interlocked and play nice together. That gives it enormous versatility. You can be a nomad explorer, or a builder who stays at base and never sees a hostile mob. You can be a redstone engineer, or a farmer accumulating insane amounts of resources. You can create map art and barter with other map artists on the server. You can hunt bases and either grief them or contact their owners and get to know their history. You can play mini games on commercial servers or code your own mods and play PvA (player vs admin) on anarchy servers.

You can find the exact combo and dosage that fits your playstyle, then switch gears a couple months later and turn the game on its head. I don’t know of many games with that kind of variety.